- From: Michael van Ouwerkerk <mvanouwerkerk@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:59:03 +0000
- To: Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAF40kP7+Ag2u4-EwmiAyCO0_vboQBW0E+=_RgoHObA-gpXmWog@mail.gmail.com>
Well, I interpreted your comment that way ("it has no impact on anything").
Maybe normative vs informative is not what you meant though?
/m
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Domenic Denicola <
domenic@domenicdenicola.com> wrote:
> I am not sure what you mean in this context by normative vs.
> informative. How would implementations differ if it were normative vs. if
> it were informative?
> ------------------------------
> From: Michael van Ouwerkerk <mvanouwerkerk@google.com>
> Sent: 3/20/2014 11:46
> To: Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>
> Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Push API - use parameterized Promise types
>
> So it is not normative? It seems it would be very informative though, so
> still worth adding to the spec. But it seems it would be even better if it
> was changed to be normative.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Domenic Denicola <
> domenic@domenicdenicola.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Michael van Ouwerkerk <mvanouwerkerk@google.com>
>>
>> > Ah I didn't know it has no effect on return values. Why not?
>>
>> Well, I believe it's the same with all WebIDL method return values. If
>> you return something that doesn't match the declared return value, that's a
>> spec bug, but it has no impact on anything. (This is unlike argument
>> values, where if the user passes in something that doesn't match the
>> declared parameter type then conversion is performed.)
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